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Where Now?

I illustrate images for a blog – here are a couple of the sketches I did for it.

More Liffey

I’m thinking about illustrating a short story about Liffey using this style. I like how haphazard I can be using this digital pastel brush!

This drawing is of Twoey and Liffey.

New Brush Doodles

Some doodles with new Photoshop brushes.

I recently discovered that the gallery in town hosts free drawing events, so this Thursday I went along to take a look. I got the chance to sketch a figure in costume, something that was remarkably tricky to do! I guess I’m used to unclothed figures …

These were drawn using a Micron pen. Then I added the colour in Photoshop, again using a Kyle T. Webster brush – this time his watercolour one.

Elsa and Liffey

A quick doodle I did for Fathers’ Day.

Elsa is our new Border Collie puppy. She likes to chew on things! Sadly, not only her own things …

I used Kyle T. Webster’s Pastel Palooza brush, and was so impressed I’ve preordered his dry media brush set. You can find his brushes here.

Good Morning!

A bird who just wants to rest has trouble with a noisy neighbour.

This short animation was made in Flash and Photoshop, then composited in After Effects. It was the final project of my Classical Animation course at Vancouver Film School.

Loopy Liffey

I’d like to work in this style more. I think I can be constricted by my line work sometimes and it was nice just using it as a base to work from!

Backgrounds

I recently finished painting my backgrounds. I’m now at the compositing stage, and I’m really enjoying seeing my film look like a film rather than a line test.

Here are a few of the finished pieces!

Colour Tests

Colour tests exploring how the light and colour will change throughout my film.

Classical Film: Roughs and Clean

One character from one scene of my classical film. I’m currently cleaning up, which involves rough cleaning the very rough roughs, and then cleaning the rough cleans!

There are a few inbetweens missing from the clean.

Tone Study

I had great intentions of working over my Christmas break, but that didn’t really happen – at least not while I was at home. As I’ve still a few days before school starts again I thought I’d catch up with some of the things I meant to do.

This is a tone study, taking my character and background designs and trying to figure out approximately what it’ll look like once it’s all coloured and composited together.

EDIT: Updated image 22/01/14